Posted on 10/02/2024 3:12:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Many believe that St. Brendan, an Irish monk, discovered parts of the Americas long before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. Others suggest he may have landed on islands like the Canaries, Azores, or Madeira. However, ancient Irish records don’t make it clear where he truly traveled there.
Some researchers claim that groups such as the Phoenicians, Japanese, Chinese, and Basques arrived long before Columbus, following the Native Americans, according to The Irish Times.
However, this part of history provides little solid proof. Because of this, myths have sprouted alongside reliable theories and facts. Some of these myths are spread by historians with personal beliefs or agendas. Others come from people who purposely fabricate false stories.
Despite this, exploring early contact with the Americas is crucial for historians. At one time, people believed Leif Erikson’s Norse settlement in Vinland was just a legend to entertain Vikings through the long winters. Even a Norse map from 1440, showing the North American coast, was once deemed fictional, as reported by The Irish Times.
In 1960, archaeologists found the remains of a Norse village at L’Anse aux Meadows, located on Newfoundland, a Canadian island. This site is now considered the only clear evidence, outside of Greenland, that others reached the Americas before Columbus did.
Grecian Delight supports Greece Arab documentary “We Discovered America Before Columbus” Saudi filmmaker Khalid Abualkair has released a documentary titled “We Discovered America Before Columbus.” The film explores the idea that the Arabs of al-Andalus and the Muslim kingdom of Mali may have reached the Americas centuries before Columbus.
PROMO WE DISCOVERED AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS ENGLISH
A significant part of this claim about the Arabs of al-Andalus comes from the work of historian Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo y Maura, the 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia in Spain. Known as the “Red Duchess” for her opposition to the dictator Franco—who imprisoned and later exiled her—she inherited one of Europe’s largest private archives.
Through her research, she became convinced that the Arabs of al-Andalus, which is now Andalusia in modern Spain, and Morocco had discovered and traveled to the northern parts of South America regularly.
The duchess claimed that her archives held early references to plants native to the Americas, including maize and peppers, long before Columbus’s arrival. She published two books outlining her theory. The first, It Wasn’t Us, came out during the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s journey, intentionally sparking controversy.
Abualkair’s documentary also explores another potential pre-Columbian connection: the story of Abu Bakr II, the king of Mali during the 14th century. As Mansa of Mali, Abu Bakr II ruled over a large part of West Africa, a region known for its vast gold wealth. His adventures add another layer to the theory of early Muslim contact with the Americas.
Nope it was the chinese as the Indian DNA shows chinese background. China has not claimed the USA and have given us 2 weeks to get out.
Ah, yes, but once Columbus “discovered” America, it remained discovered.
That's why he gets all the credit. Not the Vikings. Even though they've made an attempt on a colony in America a couple of hundreds years earlier.
Re: https://www.history.com/news/human-migration-americas-beringia
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“Ah, yes, but once Columbus “discovered” America, it remained discovered.”
I agree. Commercial secrecy during the Late Middle Ages was a given and any resources or lands discovered by fishermen and expeditions would have been kept secret as long as possible. Imagine the glee of the Vikings as they sold narwhal tusks from the Canadian Artic to the Europeans as unicorn horns.
Columbus actually “discovered” and explored the Caribbean islands if Hispaniola (Dominican Republic/Haiti) and Cuba.
If they did there wouldn’t be anything left.
No.
Every “discovery” prior to Columbus was later “undiscovered”, i.e. forgotten about. Columbus’s discovery was the only one with any significance.
My theory is that Americans first discovered the middle east. Sounds crazy I know. But it would sure tick off the Arabs.
“No - The theory with near-unanimous support from both archeologists and geneticists is that the first humans to populate the Americas arrived on foot via a temporary land bridge.”
No, they came by boat. Human maritime expeditions go as far back as the Paleolithic. Just how did those pesky aborigines get to Australia and the Polynesians to Hawaii and Easter Island? How were Mediterranean islands populated? Sardinia has never has a land bridge and modern humans appeared in the island during the Upper Paleolithic, a phalanx dated to 18000 BC had been found in the Corbeddu cave, near Oliena.
Before roads there were boats, everything of significant weight and size was moved by boats. Wood was plentiful as were hides for sails. The fisheries of the ancient world were very, very productive and people sailed the ocean reaping the bounty long, long before a single word was ever written on stone.
Pedro Cabral, en route to India in 1500, was blown off course and encountered Brazil--so even if Columbus had never sailed, the Americas would not have remained unknown to Europeans much longer.
Of course John Cabot's voyage in 1497 was earlier than Cabral's, but I think Cabot only sailed because he knew of Columbus' discovery.
That is correct.
That’s right.
it doesn’t matter WHO discovered WHAT once it’s has a name that everyone knows and repeats over and over and over. like the ohtani 50th whatever baseball, it only matters who ended up with the ball and that’s all history will remember.
“...Did the Arabs First Discover America?...”
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NO!
Next question.
Not true. At the very least, he landed on St. Croix in 1493.
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